Goad said that he never lost faith that his dog would be rescued, aside from one moment when Ohly was stuck in a steep area called ‘suicide gully’ that search and rescue helicopters couldn’t get to. Luckily the dog turned around uphill and was able to be saved.

“I’d always believed we’d get him back,” said Goad. “I was out there looking for him everyday.”

Goad joined a team of seven ground rescuers Saturday morning who were joined later by a helicopter rescue team.

When Ohly climbed up from the gully, rescuers were able to get a hold of his collar and pull him to safety.

North Shore Rescue estimates the cost of Ohly’s rescue at about $7,000 due to the fact that they used a helicopter. The organization decided to rescue the dog because of risk of having untrained searchers entering the dangerous terrain Ohly was lost in.